Type of diet that works for you...

Hi im a current and active member of Fakku and i just wanna know if there are people out there doing some diet promgram. to let you know im obese i weight around 240 pounds and im doing my best to lose some weight can you give me some tips in order to lose some weight...

240lbs and how tall and body frame size? I used to be 240 at 5'8"... that's obese but now I'm at 211.6 with a medium sized muscular frame. Saying 240 lbs isn't helpful unless you provide more measurements.

My parents are vegetarian, so by default I eat a lot of vegetarian food at home. I even limit the amount of rice to eat.

Mostly about dieting is controlling the urge to eat more. Obviously junk food are no-no unless you work it off the same day. I also think calorie rich foods should be limited, like pasta, bread, pastry, and other fatty foods like eggs (the yolk) and eating a lot of meat should be avoided whenever possible.

Ultimately, to lose weight is a two-pronged front: dieting and excercising. You won't lose the weight alone by dieting, at least you won't see the results anytime soon if you do that.

Agreed.
I find that to lose weight, don't eat too much meat and begin exercising. If you eat a lot of meat and exercise, you can turn that meat into muscle, while losing fat, which in turn would make you gain weight. I'd say just eat less for each meal slowly. Just try and stave off the hunger, so your body adjusts to the lower amount being eaten.
For the exercise I'd recommend, I'd say running to build stamina, and proper swimming to lose waistline. Also, a martial art would help immensly.

Provide your height and where you think your body weight is most centered at, and I can help some more.

EDIT: And I'm not sure if it helps too much, but I never drink anything besides water and gatorade anymore. Also, instead of eating big meals 3 times a day, try 5 small meals.

Unless you want to lose quite a bit of weight fast, there is a really simple diet which you don't need to do anything special for. I think its called the basic diet or limit diet or something like that.

Its were you only eat 3 meals a day.

Sounds simple, but its not really those meals that make up the weight - the body naturally burns most of that away (depending on what type of food and how much - if you only eat McDonalds its not gonna work(, its the snacks that really add up. Snacks stimulate your appetite and are the ones which go straight to the belt. Ad if you really need a snack, eat a banana or a carrot (not an apple) as these help curb hunger.

And you don't really need to exercise that much (i love running myself, but others seem to hate it) so just walk a bit more...

P.S. I love the pic...

I was once near being obese around 17 years old when I read an article on Readers' Digest. I can't remember the edition or the author, but what I can remember are three things from the article - exercise, drink water and simply eat less.

I then shunned escalators and elevators - I used the stairs. Did morning jogging. Did 25 push-ups and belly crunches daily before sleeping.

Before I ate roughly 2.5 cups of rice for a meal - I kept it down to 1.5 cup of rice and 3/4 of my usual meal size, and in lieu I added lean tomato and lettuce salad to my meal. Ony drink soda once a week. I only ate 3 times a day. If I felt peckish and hungry in midmorning or afternoon I drink water and nibble on half a cracker of Skyflakes. No midnight snacks.

But I still got to drink soda and eat ice cream, pizza and mustard-lathered hotdogs - just lesser. No fancy diets - I lost 10 pounds in 7 weeks without tiring or depriving myself.